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table of contents
  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I Big Blue
    1. 1 All Together Now: Anchovy, Sardine, and Herring
    2. 2 Hot Blooded: Tuna and the Open Ocean Predators
    3. 3 The Oldest Fishes in the Sea: Sharks and Rays
    4. 4 Greats of the Great Blue: Whale Sharks and Other Giants
  5. Part II Rock, Sand, and Reef
    1. 5 An Oasis of Abundance: Life on a Coral Reef
    2. 6 Weird and Wonderful: Where Horses Swim and Bats Walk
    3. 7 Slow Food: Cod, Haddock, Pollock, and Halibut
    4. 8 Into the Abyss: Barreleyes, Tripodfish, and More Deepwater Oddities
  6. Part III Where Mountains Meet Waves
    1. 9 Flowing River, Pounding Surf: Tarpon and Other Coastal Cruisers
    2. 10 Sweet and Salty: Eels, Salmon, and Alewives
  7. Part IV Tide to Table
    1. 11 Fish to the Rescue: Feeding a Hungry Planet
  8. Epilogue
  9. Marine Conservation and Sustainable Seafood Resources
  10. Notes
  11. Index

Copyright © 2025 Cornell University

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Meisel, Joe E., author.

Title: The marlin’s fiery eye and other tales from the extraordinary world of marine fishes / Joe E. Meisel.

Description: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024020248 (print) | LCCN 2024020249 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501779442 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501779466 (epub) | ISBN 9781501779459 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Marine fishes—Behavior. | Marine fishes—Conservation.

Classification: LCC QL620 .M45 2025 (print) | LCC QL620 (ebook) | DDC 597—dc23/eng/20240809

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024020248

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024020249

Cover illustration: Painting of an Indo-Pacific sailfish. markku murto/art / Alamy Stock Photo.

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